Lauren Gawne
@superlinguo.bsky.social
Linguist
Senior Lecturer, La Trobe University
gesture/grammar/✨emoji/#lingcomm
Podcast: @lingthusiasm
Masto: superlinguo@scicomm.xyz
Blog: superlinguo.com
She/her(/they)
Senior Lecturer, La Trobe University
gesture/grammar/✨emoji/#lingcomm
Podcast: @lingthusiasm
Masto: superlinguo@scicomm.xyz
Blog: superlinguo.com
She/her(/they)
It's a real Everybody Wins situation
October 23, 2025 at 9:52 AM
It's a real Everybody Wins situation
You can just do what I did and outsource to my favourite neurodivergent millennial girlies who made skincare their special interest for 6 months (lol DMs incoming sorry)
October 23, 2025 at 9:39 AM
You can just do what I did and outsource to my favourite neurodivergent millennial girlies who made skincare their special interest for 6 months (lol DMs incoming sorry)
Scrolled back to find this 🥳🥳🥳
October 23, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Scrolled back to find this 🥳🥳🥳
Podiversary Felicitations!
Fourth birthday requires a very deep cut emoji, here's the emojidex design from 2016-2017.
Fourth birthday requires a very deep cut emoji, here's the emojidex design from 2016-2017.
October 22, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Podiversary Felicitations!
Fourth birthday requires a very deep cut emoji, here's the emojidex design from 2016-2017.
Fourth birthday requires a very deep cut emoji, here's the emojidex design from 2016-2017.
Reposted by Lauren Gawne
We've also made a new greeting card design that says {Merry/marry/Mary} Holidays!
Whether you say these words the same or differently, we hope this card leads to joyful discussions of linguistic variation
www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1728...
Whether you say these words the same or differently, we hope this card leads to joyful discussions of linguistic variation
www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1728...
Merry/marry/Mary Holidays! by Lingthusiasm | Redbubble
Want to congratulate a linguist? This card is here to help!
With the word "congrats" transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet surrounded by a cheerful, confetti-like design of reds and yel...
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October 17, 2025 at 3:34 AM
We've also made a new greeting card design that says {Merry/marry/Mary} Holidays!
Whether you say these words the same or differently, we hope this card leads to joyful discussions of linguistic variation
www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1728...
Whether you say these words the same or differently, we hope this card leads to joyful discussions of linguistic variation
www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1728...
Reposted by Lauren Gawne
People have responded super enthusiastically to the jazzed up version of our logo! So we’ve now made this design available on some very cute merch:
New Logo - White by Lingthusiasm | Redbubble
We’ve made a special jazzed-up version of the Lingthusiasm logo featuring fun little drawings from the first 100 episodes of enthusiasm about linguistics! There’s a leaping Gavagai rabbit, bouba and k...
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October 17, 2025 at 3:33 AM
People have responded super enthusiastically to the jazzed up version of our logo! So we’ve now made this design available on some very cute merch:
My priors on thinking too much about hyperlinks: www.superlinguo.com/post/6431298...
The linguistics of hyperlinks
Hyperlinks are a ubiquitous feature of the internet, but unlike other elements of internet language use, there hasn’t been a lot of published work that considers the linguistics of hyperlinks. Or real...
www.superlinguo.com
October 19, 2025 at 8:53 AM
My priors on thinking too much about hyperlinks: www.superlinguo.com/post/6431298...
Link to the post: www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-bubbl...
The AI Bubble's Impossible Promises
Readers: I’ve done a very generous “free” portion of this newsletter, but I do recommend paying for premium to get the in-depth analysis underpinning the intro. That being said, I want as many people ...
www.wheresyoured.at
October 19, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Link to the post: www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-bubbl...
You just missed proposal season! unicode.org/emoji/propos...
Not sure you'd have luck with demonstrating Multiple Uses, but that might be my lack of imagination
Not sure you'd have luck with demonstrating Multiple Uses, but that might be my lack of imagination
Guidelines for Submitting Unicode® Emoji Proposals
unicode.org
October 16, 2025 at 8:10 AM
You just missed proposal season! unicode.org/emoji/propos...
Not sure you'd have luck with demonstrating Multiple Uses, but that might be my lack of imagination
Not sure you'd have luck with demonstrating Multiple Uses, but that might be my lack of imagination
always touched when a shitposter from another domain makes jokes about my own special interest, but extra delighted that Foone knows how to linguistics shitpost
October 13, 2025 at 10:15 PM
always touched when a shitposter from another domain makes jokes about my own special interest, but extra delighted that Foone knows how to linguistics shitpost
Aww yeah, love the running dolls. I've seen talks from this team where they show the stimulus being made and there's just this suitcase full of dolls 😂
October 2, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Aww yeah, love the running dolls. I've seen talks from this team where they show the stimulus being made and there's just this suitcase full of dolls 😂
Happiest of book birthdays!
October 2, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Happiest of book birthdays!